Posted on 07/06/2009 7:41:08 PM PDT by Free America52
To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country.
Since about half the planet's climate-warming emissions come from less than a billion of its people, it makes sense to follow these rich folks when setting national targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the authors wrote on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
As it stands now, under the carbon-capping Kyoto Protocol, rich countries shoulder most of the burden for cutting the emissions that spur global warming, while developing countries -- including fast-growing economies China and India -- are not required to curb greenhouse pollution.
Rich countries, notably the United States, have said this gives developing countries an unfair economic advantage; China, India and other developing countries argue that developed countries have historically spewed more climate-warming gases, and developing countries need time to catch up.
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Our President and Congress are absolutely stupid enough to fall for this nonsense.
Just one more example of conclusions first, supporting arguments second. Is it best to examine facts and findings to track down a recommendation or rather to first make a decision, then search for arguments which support the decision, no matter how shaky? It’s the primary difference between Conservatives and Liberals.
I find it vaguely amusing that they still make an effort to use a word like “climate” when they discuss these proposals. Of course, “climate” has nothing to do with any of this. They simply mean to steal from productive people and give to non-productive people. The weather has nothing to do with any of it.
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This is more of the same old line of reasoning that goes like this "the US is x% of the World population but uses y% of the world's consumption of energy..." And a statistic like that fails to account for what it is we do with y% of the world's consumption of energy. I mean, if you were to evenly distribute energy consumption per capita all over the world, what portion of ground breaking pharmaceuticals would you expect to come out of Africa? What share of new manufacturing technologies? What portion of new aircraft designs? How about fundamental scientific research into agriculture and food production? Many of the achievements in science, technology, medicine and any number of fields of achievement in the United States inure to the benefit of people all over the world who might never make those advances, even if the share of energy consumption (per capita) were more evenly balanced. It's not what you consume, it's what you produce!
Just one more way to f*** America.
As long as you have money, you are the reason why we will all die.
God, the stupidity of these people. I just watched KNOWING with Nic Cage on DVD and i wished the ending of that movie would actually happen.
Obviously the rich do produce a lot of CO2, but they are the big supporters of stopping global warming. If we to decide to target them and leave Average Joe alone, they aren't going to like that. After all, they are the elite and are allowed such luxuries.
I was wondering when Democrats would limit energy consumption, boom-boom, Out go the lights!
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